"That Woman Didn't Want To Do Nothing for Me," a case before Rabbi Rubin's mediation court.

Rabbi Rubin's Lower East Side air of the court was witness to almost every variety of human dispute, of which those between spouses might have been the most common -- but by no means the least interesting. Witness this case between a down-on-the-heal dry-goods salesman and the wife in whose nest egg he'd invested his hopes for success.